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The Method of Grace
The method of grace, in bringing home the eternal redemption contrived by the Father, and accomplished by the Son through the effectual application of the spirit unto God's elect, being the second part of Gospel redemption : wherein the great mystery of our union and communion with Christ is opened and applied, unbelievers invited, false pretenders convicted, every mans claim to Christ examined, and the misery of Christless persons discovered and bewailed / by John Flavell ...The method of grace, in bringing home the eternal redemption contrived by the Father, and accomplished by the Son through the effectual application of the spirit unto God's elect, being the second part of Gospel redemption : wherein the great mysterie of our union and communion with Christ is opened and applied, unbelievers invited, false pretenders convicted, every mans claim to Christ examined, and the misery of Christless persons discovered and bewailed / by John Flavell ...
London: printed by M. White for Francis Tyton, 1681
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Secondly, If there be spiritual hunger and thirst, it's a sweet sign of spiritual life; this sign agrees to Christians of a day old, 1 Pet. 2. 2. even new born babes desire the sincere milk of the word: if spiritual life be in you, you know how to expound that Scripture, Psal. 42. 1. without any other interpreter than your own experience: you will feel somewhat like the gnawing of an empty stomach, making you restless during the interruption of your daily communion with the Lord.
Secondly, If there be spiritual hunger and thirst, it's a sweet sign of spiritual life; this sign agrees to Christians of a day old, 1 Pet. 2. 2. even new born babes desire the sincere milk of the word: if spiritual life be in you, you know how to expound that Scripture, Psal. 42. 1. without any other interpreter than your own experience: you will feel somewhat like the g•awing of an empty stomach, making you restless during the interruption of your daily communion with the Lord.
Thirdly, If there be spiritual conflicts with sin, there is spiritual life in your soul, Gal. 5. 17. not only a combat betwixt light in the higher, and lust in the lower faculties: nor only opposition to more gross external corruptions that carry more infamy and horror with them than other sins do: but the same faculty will be the seat of War; and the more inward, secret and spiritual any lust is, by so much the more will it be opposed and mourned over.